“Whoever has eaten from this plant must not come near us until its smell—or his own—has vanished.”

When the prayer was over, I went to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and said, “Messenger of Allah, give me your hand.” He then slipped his hand inside the sleeve of my shirt until it reached my chest, and he found that I had wrapped my belly with a bandage out of hunger. He said, “You have a valid excuse.”

Abu Dawud recorded it, saying: Shayban ibn Farrukh narrated to us; Abu Hilal narrated to us; Hamid ibn Hilal from Abu Burdah, from him.

This isnad is sound (ḥasan). All its narrators are reliable and belong to the men of Muslim, except Abu Hilal—whose full name is Muhammad ibn Salim al-Rasabi—and he is truthful, though somewhat weak, as stated in al-Taqrib.

Ahmad also transmitted it—through ‘Abd al-Rahman ibn Mahdi—in an abridged form.

Eighth: Qurrah (Abu Mu‘awiyah) reported that the Prophet ﷺ forbade these two plants and said, “Whoever eats them should not come near our mosque,” and he added, “If you …,” the rest of the hadith. It is the sixth (in our enumeration).

Abu Dawud and Ahmad recorded it from ‘Abd al-Malik ibn ‘Amr who said: Khalid ibn Maysarah narrated to us; Mu‘awiyah ibn Qurrah from his father.